Awards

For pioneering a new, traceable and more accurate basis for U.S. mass measurements in the commercially important range from micrograms to milligrams.

For outstanding leadership in identifying and implementing safety improvements, and influencing positive change toward safety in PML’s Sensor Science Division.

For establishing the High-Frequency Structural Simulator (HFSS) computer modeling system at NIST for creating complex electromagnetics simulations to assist in research across multiple OUs.

For creating the Undelivered Order Review application, significantly automating the return of obligated but undisbursed funds back to OUs across NIST.

For numerous innovations in laser technology and applications, enabling new precision measurements, new products, and fundamental science.

For his key contributions to the fields of label-free chemical imaging and biological therapeutics.

For revolutionizing pressure metrology by replacing the existing standard of nearly 4 centuries with a faster and more precise quantum-based method.

For developing precise and low-cost calibration and verification methods in the field for chemical detectors that monitor chemical-warfare agents.

For contributions to re-engineering and delivering a new labor-saving, paperless RSA SecurID Token distribution service, improving customer service.

For his leadership of the federal building and fire safety investigation of the World Trade Center disaster and in transforming the DOC's National Technical Information Service.

For outstanding measurement science contributions that led to the first technical specification providing guidance for safe robot-human collaboration.

For development of an international standard and supporting messaging language to enable enhanced robot agility in manufacturing applications.

For accelerating the emergence of a new generation of flexible electronic devices by improving flawed standard measurement practices.

For proactive leadership of the ITL-wide Safety Clean-Up initiative and the early adoption of the OSHE Workplace Inspection Reporting System (WIRS) application.

For their timely and well-articulated article on timing needs and requirements for the financial industry.

For modernizing the NIST-Guest wireless network by providing mainstream internet access for personal devices that exceeds stakeholder expectations.

For development of a suite of whole-genome human reference materials designed to advance clinical applications of genome sequencing.

Hai S. Lew of EL's Materials and Structural Systems Division has worked at NIST for over 49 years. He joined the National Bureau of Standards in 1968 as a structural research engineer. As Senior Research Engineer, he carries out a broad range of research programs in the fields of structural and earthquake engineering. Dr. Lew has published over 150 articles, papers, and reports on the performance of structures, construction safety, failure investigations, and earthquake engineering.

For advancing materials development by creating tabletop X-ray tools that rival or exceed those available only at massive national user facilities.